Atif Rafay, 46, is serving three life sentences for crimes he insists he did not commit. Atif says he and his best friend Sebastian Burns were convicted of the July 1994 murders of his parents and sister after, he claims, authorities manipulated them into making false confessions.

“The people who killed my parents have never been brought to justice, and I’ve spent the last 20 years trying to get a court to take notice of that,” says Atif in a phone interview from the Monroe Correctional Facility in Washington state.

On Monday’s episode, “Anatomy of A ‘False Confession,’” Dr. Phil dissects Atif’s confession with his appellate attorney Daniel Woofter; attorney Laura Nirider, co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions; and Dave Thompson, an expert in interrogation training and certified forensic interviewer. And later, key witnesses placed Atif and Sebastian miles away from the crime scene at a time when they could not have possibly committed the murders. Did the police and the prosecution ignore their alibi?

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